Crossword clues for rootcap
rootcap
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rootcap
Rootcap \Root"cap`\ (r[=oo]t"k[a^]p`), n. (Bot.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
Wiktionary
rootcap
n. A mass of parenchymatous cells that covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root.
Usage examples of "rootcap".
Their tips had previously been cut off, in a direction as accurately transverse as could be done, to different lengths, measured from the apex of the rootcap, and which will be specified in each case.
As soon as the tip, protected by the rootcap, reaches the ground, it penetrates the surface, if this be soft or friable.